Alice the Cat & Baby Robin Update: Toronto Photographer

I haven’t posted images of Alice lately, so thought it was time for some new ones, and to mix it up, quite a few are shot and processed on the Apple iPhone.

Really love this one, she is at the front window watching life go by:

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The camera in the iPhone 3G isn’t fabulous, so I use iPhone apps to give the images a vintage ‘toy camera’ look:

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(shot & processed on the iPhone)

My new faves for the iPhone are BlurFX and PictureShow. Blurring the background of the iPhone photos helps to bring the focus to the subject and smooth out/de-clutter the “everything in focus” aspect of the iPhone camera. PictureShow is great as there are SO many options from different effects, frames, light leaking, and noise, the only downside is it can take a while to decide on your fave look for the image!

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This is a goofy photo of Alice, who was hanging out with me in my office, when she heard my daughter coming. She sat up straight and got this crazy wide-eyed look on her face, Rebecca and I laughed!

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She was still keeping an eye on Rebecca, before she settled down on my Apple Airport to snooze. The last image was a shot I captured of her snoozing on my daughter’s shoes?, you can see the iPhone version above, cats sleep in the strangest places! lol

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Well, from my previous post on the Robin’s nest in front of our house, you know there used to be two babies, but the smaller one disappeared. 🙁 None of the  other eggs ever hatched, so this little guy grew very fast! The following were shot with the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone, the little guy in his nest, and then all grown up out of the nest:

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Shot with the Canon 1DMkIV with the 70-200mm f2.8L and the Canon 100mm f2.8 macro, we see the father keeping watch, below that the mother on the nest, the baby on the nest and then out of the nest:

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(See “My Camera Equipment” in footer section for links/more information on camera equipment used.)

Last shot of the baby Robin as he heads out into the world, shot and processed on the iPhone:

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Return of the Baby Robins

I don’t know if this is the same mama Robin from two years ago, but I was really hoping she had learned that Avenue Road is not an ideal location for a nest. Given that there are five eggs, I fear there may be a repeat of the sad “survival of the fittest” situation. 🙁

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First there was one, then two, three more eggs to possibly hatch:

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(Shot and processed on the iPhone.)

Utah Photography Workshop: Toronto Family Photographer

Last week I attended an amazing workshop with Nichole Van, and I am missing the beautiful weather in Utah, a nice DRY heat rather then what we are currently experiencing in Toronto.

Here are some images I captured during the workshop. The first series is with models she organized for us at her home outdoor studio (her backyard):

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The next day we moved to an off-site location. This image was shot with off-camera light that Nichole set up:

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The rest of the images, from that shoot, were natural light:

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On the way back to the hotel, one night, we stopped to photograph some beautiful horses, and the landscape:

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LizJuly 26, 2010 - 11:22 am

Ah! It’s Harrison the Ford! I’m jealous 🙂 …wish I could make it to one of Nichole’s workshops. Instead, I’ve got her workshop in a box! Great photos! I came across your site after reading your savvy mom article!

HollyJuly 26, 2010 - 11:29 am

Thanks Liz. The workshop was awesome! But the workshop in a box is a great resource, isn’t the info in the manual amazing? Nichole is a GREAT teacher. 🙂

Utah iPhone Photography

I traveled down to Utah last week for a photography workshop (more to come from that!), and used my iPhone camera/app to shoot and process the following shots. For me great photography apps on the iPhone make all the difference, it’s such an easy camera to pull out and have fun with!

Shots from the plane on my connecting flight to Chicago:

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Shots from the plane much closer to Utah:

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A few at the photo shoots in Utah (more to come from my Canon equipment):

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From the car window while traveling around in Utah:

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Shots from the plane, from Utah to Chicago:

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Chicago to Toronto, note the Toronto skyline in the last two images:

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(All images shot and processed on the iPhone, some of the black and white images were slightly tweaked (increased the black) in Adobe Lightroom.)